Billionaire's wealth has grown faster last year, and now the world can expect at least 5 trillionaires within a decade, even as the number of people in poverty has barely budged since 1990 ...
The World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, is underway this week — and there are calls for taxing the extremely rich to address global inequality.
Oxfam’s ‘Million Pound Pint’ campaign aims to highlight the disparity between the super-rich and the rest of the population.
Drawing on a range of studies and research papers, Oxfam calculated that between 1765 and 1900, the richest 10 percent in the ...
The ultra-rich pose a threat to our democratic institutions—and the problem will deepen if extreme wealth is left unchecked.
The international spaces of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund (IMF) are equally emblematic of the power ...
We’ve reached a new era now, we are in the era of the billionaire,” said Jenny Ricks, general secretary of the human rights ...
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